Our Services
Advantous uniquely provides customizable end-to-end solutions that range from turnkey compliance services to high-level planning and advisory consulting. Our team of professionals bring cross-industry depth and experience, resources, and the technical expertise to protect and enhance your bottom line.
Business Incentives
We assist companies with identifying, negotiating, and complying with various federal, state, and local incentive programs available. Whether a job creation programs, property tax abatement, cooperative endeavor agreements, or many others across various states, our experience in delivering bottom-line benefits is unmatched.
Sales & Use Tax
As a premier sales and use tax consulting firm, we are focused on helping companies navigate unique and complex sales and use tax environments. Our talented team of professionals puts our extensive knowledge to work to handle all sales and use tax issues, including reverse audits, audit defense, and multi-state appeals and disputes
Property Tax
Our property tax experts have over three decades of experience in assisting clients with a wide variety of property tax matters. In the ever-changing business environment, our team works with state and local officials to help our clients negotiate equitable, fair assessments and valuations.
Income & Franchise Tax
Companies must navigate through a complex state and local tax landscape. Aggressive tax enforcement as well as tax laws and policies that are sometimes “fluid” in nature present challenges to businesses in a wide array of industries consistently achieving and maintaining income tax compliance.
Additional Services
Our services extend well beyond those listed here. We also utilize key relationships at the federal, state, and local levels of government with extensive experience advocating on behalf of business and industry.
Appeals & Disputes
Advantous’ team of tax professionals have secured advantageous results for our clients before an array of taxing authorities and administrative bodies. As Advantous advises clients from a wide variety of industries and in all aspects of tax compliance and planning, we are a market leader in handling formal appeals and disputes of all tax types.
Government Relations
We utilize relationships at all levels of government with extensive experience advocating on behalf of business and industry. While we aren’t a lobbying firm, our relationships with elected officials on tax matters are unique. We help companies obtain local incentives, and we serve as thought leaders on nearly all tax matters.
Resources
Resources & Articles
Credits & Incentives Trends
In December 2024, Louisiana Economic Development announced that Meta has selected Northeast Louisiana as the site for a $10B AI-Optimization Center. The race is on for data centers and AI facilities for local jurisdictions and states to compete for such new and exciting projects. In Louisiana, the legislature enacted a new data center sales and use tax exemption. In other states, similar benefits have been provided along with ad valorem tax reductions in local jurisdictions. Congrats to Northeast Louisiana and LED for securing the WIN!
Louisiana Credits & Incentives Update
LED recently submitted its Summary Report to the Louisiana Legislative oversight committees regarding the proposed ITEP Rules published in the LA Register on 12/20/2024. LED also is expecting the proposed ITEP Rules to be published as final rules in the LA register 3/20/2025. This update was given publicly at the February meeting of the Louisiana Board of Commerce & Industry (BCI).
Louisiana Legislative Lowdown
Anticipation is on the rise as Louisiana’s 2025 Regular Legislative Session is set to convene at noon on Monday, April 14, 2025. The session will adjourn no later than 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 12, 2025. Since it is an odd-numbered year, this session is a fiscal session that will focus on budgetary and financial matters; however, legislators may file up to five non-fiscal bills.